Mealplans WB Mon 28 May 2012

Skint_yet_Again

Mon Left over roast pork with apple & herb crust, mini honey roast potatoes with garlic and herb sauce & salad
tue Chilli beef stir fry & noodles
wed Lasagne, wedges, salad & garlic bread
thu chilli beef mince meatballs, pasta
fri chicken curry, chips, nan bread, onion bhajis
sat oven fish, chips mushy peas
sun roast chicken dinner, veg & gravy

MandM90

Boodle I want all of your recipes

VALM

I'd like to join this thread please. I usually plan our meals out weekly and am looking for inspiration. We are also dieting. This week (starting from today) I have planned:-

Tues: piri piri chicken thighs with new potatoes, veggies and side plate of salsa
Weds: Salmon, noodles, Blue Dragon stir fry sauce (Sainsbury's had fab offer on - box of 3 sachets for £1.00 so bought 2 x boxes this week), stir fry veggies.
Thurs: We have ready meals on a Thursday because my daughter goes to karate so MrM is usually out dropping her off when I get home from work. Hence we fend for ourselves.
Fri: Sausages, new potatoes and veggies.

My week then starts on a Saturday as we food shop Saturday am.

Boodle

Are we starting to keep to the same thread for weekly mealplans? Is this to keep the board tidy?

Funky Mum - I made the chilli in the slow cooker. 50g puy lentils, 50g quinoa, a couple large carrots (diced), about 2-3 onions (diced), a heart of celery (diced), 1 tbsp yeast extract dissolved in about 600ml hot water, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp cumin, 1 tbsp dried thyme, 1 bay leaf and 1 tbsp smoked paprika (it was for my young kids as well so you could use as much chilli as you like instead). Pop the slow cooker on. Made more than enough for the four of us.

MandM - I have a blog, but I'm not sure they count as recipes as my approach is really just to throw stuff together as I find it or fancy it I know people sometimes put their blog link on their profile but I can't see where I would put it. Ask away on here though... I do!!! Your plans always look yummy and I think someone else's always looks more exciting than our own

This week's plan (lots of easy stuff and treats for half term!):

Breakfasts
Wholemeal toast with HM elderflower jelly or HM rhubarb and ginger jam, or fruit n fibre. Soya milk or tea.

Lunches
Hummus or peanut butter sarnies and fruit for kids + OH; hummus salads for me. Out quite a few days so the odd bowl of soup/jackets with baked beans/veg nuggets in cafes.

Teas
Soya yoghurt with strawberries, raspberries and/or pinepple when we get home from outings.

Dinners
Sat: Leftover HM Pizza and baked beans
Sun: At MILs
Mon: Jacket pots with hummus, Cauldron marinated tofu pieces and diced tomatoes.
Tue: (ssh... we got veggie burgers and chips from takeaway :cool:)
Wed: Thai Green Curry (slow cooker) with Lemon Bay Rice
Thu: Lasagne with bolognese-style sauce
Fri: Veggie fingers, HM oven chips and mushy peas with salt and vinegar.... yummy!
Sat: The kids are at grandparents so we might treat ourselves out somewhere or decide to cook something special on the day
Sun: Dinner at above-grandparents house when picking up the wee ones.

I like to think the 2 sundays of free food balances out the lunch treats

Suppers - soya milk for the girls, popcorn or carrots for us to nibble on later.

Hope you all have a good week x

Funky_Mum

Boodle thanks that sounds lovely and easy Your blog link would go in your signature I think! I'd love to read it

MandM90 do you have a recipe for your 5 bean chilli please?

MandM90

Funky_Mum wrote: »

Boodle thanks that sounds lovely and easy Your blog link would go in your signature I think! I'd love to read it

MandM90 do you have a recipe for your 5 bean chilli please?

• Fry an onion and two/three cloves of garlic in a little oil (I use a smidgen then top up with a little water to keep it low fat)
• Add 1 heaped teaspoon of ground cumin and 1 heaped teaspoon of Chilli powder and fry for a couple of mins (or leave out if you have kids and put chilli sauce on the adults/split towards the end of cooking and add chilli to one)
• Add two tins of mixed beans, or one of mixed beans, one of kidney beans*
• Add a can of chopped tomatoes, a veggie stock cube and 3/4 cup of water.
• Bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Throw in a cube of dark choc at the end if you have some, and garnish with chopped coriander if you have it.
• Season. Serve.

*Alternatively, soak one and a half cups of dried mixed beans (pinto, roseccoco, kidney, black eyed beans, chickpeas in any mix you fancy. You can also buy cheap bean mixes in the supermarket) overnight. Boil for 10 minutes then simmer for 90 mins. Because it's such a long cooking time I boil up big batches and freeze them in portions that roughly equate to a can, to throw into soups and stews.

VALM

Our meals this week:-

Saturday: Pizza with salad and salsa
Sunday: Chicken Fajitas
Monday: Salmon with rice and Garlic and Ginger sauce and veggies
Tuesday Salmon with pasta and pasta sauce and veggies
Wednesday : Sausages and mash and veggies
Thursday: Ready Meals
Friday: Smoked cod loin with rice and veggies

A bit of a fishy week. Trying to be :money: and eat from the freezer. Only item I've had to buy for tea this week is the chicken.

amiehall

Do any of you use a good cookbook or website to plan out meals? I really struggle to put plans together that work. Ie I live alone so if I buy a large vegetable, I need to use it in several recipes. Does anyone have any good meal plans for a beginner?

VALM

amiehall wrote: »

Do any of you use a good cookbook or website to plan out meals? I really struggle to put plans together that work. Ie I live alone so if I buy a large vegetable, I need to use it in several recipes. Does anyone have any good meal plans for a beginner?

re: vegetables - we tend to try to use them in different ways ie - stir fried, mixed into a salsa or made into ratatouille.

For salsa use:-

cucumber, half a chilli, red onion, tomatoes (if big tomatoes I skin them although prefer cherry tomatoes so leave skins on (they are sweeter), coriander and rice vinegar. Mix all ingredients together and chill.

For ratatouille:-

Mix courgette, peppers, onion together with tin a tomatoes. Add herbs to your liking.

amiehall

Sorry just noticed I've managed to post randomly on a thread from weeks ago without noticing...